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  LEAKED: WHQ Accounts: 2016-2020 Budget

  by Fay Dehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  leaked: whq accounts: 2016-2020 budget [part 1 of 5] https://youtu.be/g08tw2v3b4s.

  leaked: whq accounts: 2016-2020 budget [part 2 of 5] https://youtu.be/rpceb5v0vbe.

  leaked: whq accounts: 2016-2020 budget [part 3 of 5] https://youtu.be/2xa08ukc_6i.

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  Della Street

  I watched video 1 and 4 - do they mention anywhere having a line item for legal costs and/or settlements??

  Where is the money going ? Is a good question. Although I'm assuming a lot of it is going for sex abuse cases, that doesn't fully explain all of it. As it stands now, with all the cuts in production, staffing and other items people are right to assume that the needs are not as much now as in the past. They look bad begging all the time.

  They would probably do better if they just came clean said we screwed up how we handled sex abuse and we've had to settle X amount of cases for X amount of dollars - like all the other churches do. People could get their mind around that and would probably pony up the bucks to fix it.
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  Religious Discrimination; now LEGAL

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  newsflash.

  there are businesses that are now discriminating in their hiring practices based on the fact that you are a jw.. sure, you think i'm mad.

  but it's true.. the business circles have become acutely aware of the -not even 1 year old- decision in the industrial court where a jw ratted out a fellow jw and brought disrepute to the bank where they both worked.

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  This is not about religious discrimination - it is about ethics. If people can't follow the ethics of their profession, they are unqualified and should not be employed.
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  Religious Discrimination; now LEGAL

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  newsflash.

  there are businesses that are now discriminating in their hiring practices based on the fact that you are a jw.. sure, you think i'm mad.

  but it's true.. the business circles have become acutely aware of the -not even 1 year old- decision in the industrial court where a jw ratted out a fellow jw and brought disrepute to the bank where they both worked.

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  Della Street

  This is a particularly interesting sentence:

  If the one under suspicion had, in effect, resigned from being a member, not having attended any meetings for some time and not identifying herself as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, they might choose to let the matter rest until such time as she did begin to identify herself again as a Witness.

  Faders are considered resigned but not disassociated or disfellowshipped. Sort of an unofficial third option.
  
  
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  A&E - Cults and Extreme Belief - Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Incognito in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't seen this posted.. tuesday may 29, 2018 @ 10pm (new york time zone).

  cults and extreme belief - jehovah's witnesses.

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  Della Street

  couple of comments:

  1) Where did the "Witness of Jehovah" cartoon come from? I'd never seen this before.

  2) Going to HQ was a little overdone. What large organization could you go to, and drop in on the CEO or someone from the Board of Directors without an appointment of some kind??

  3) I think Romy is a little too whiny at the begnning - it would have been more powerful to simply state what the doctrine or rules and let people draw their own conclusions.

  4) The Anderson's were excellent!!

  5) The posted JW Child Abuse Policy contains some items that are new, and perhaps even only recently instigated. I wish there had been more discussion on how the policy has developed.
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  A&E - Cults and Extreme Belief - Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Incognito in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't seen this posted.. tuesday may 29, 2018 @ 10pm (new york time zone).

  cults and extreme belief - jehovah's witnesses.

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  Della Street

  should we have a virtual viewing party?? :-)
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  Study edition august 2018 about news sources

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the study edition of august 2018 mentions the 3 reliable news sources for jehovah's witnesses:.

  "breaking news" at jw.org.

  "news" at jw.org.

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  Della Street

  So is watching CNN, FOX or NPR going to qualify me as apostate now??
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

  biggest changes:.

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  Della Street

  I don't think it is as bad as it looks. Line 4330 - Other Liabilities is a big line item where I suspect they are funneling money to other entities based on the amount.
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  Movie Apostacy

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  where can i watch this?

  i saw it was limited release last sept. but it should be out now.

  anyone know?

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  Della Street

  looks like you can rent the content on that website or amazon...
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  Regional Convention New Releases

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the new releases for the regional convention are out at the borg's page.

  but remember, you can not see them unless first you attend....

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  Where did you find the new releases? All I could find was a trailer for the new Jonah movie.
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  The political left, perfectly captured in one short video exchange

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  this perfectly encapsulates the behaviour and opinions of the left and dave rubin nails it - "you're not oppressed, you're entitled".. lots of of shouting and claims of being denied rights to speak but nothing really to say when given a mic, just endless shouting and baseless confused claims about 'free speech'.

  hey, some blm bitches try and get in on it too because, why not.. constant "i have a question, i have a question ..." as though she isn't allowed to ask it when the reality is she really has nothing to say, she just wants to stop other people being able to talk.

  what a stupid cunt.. sadly, the left is indoctrinating a generation to think that *this* is what political discourse and "taking a stand" is.

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  Della Street

  My views on issues land pretty much in the middle. The issue I have with what gets public attention from each side is that regular people demonstrate an inability to engage in debate or conversation about issues without resorting to personal attacks and the lack of respect for people they don't agree with or understand. In the OP, the girl was referred to as a cunt and there is a lot of other name-calling in this thread. Is this the kind of people we want to be?

  I'm sure we can engage the topics without resorting to using easy but inaccurate names as a substitute for real thinking.